Well, Nude, which is the third track on the record (N.D.L.R : in rainbows) , we played that — in fact, we recorded that, we did a version of that when we were recording OK Computer. And, you know, we did a kind of a nice version of it, but it wasn’t right. And we even played it on that tour — on the OK Computer tour we played it live. But it had a different arrangement and it had a different feel. You know, it’s funny with a song like that, because songs have their times. They have their moments. I always think that like, really great songs, as well, they have their times of the day. There can be a great song, but it might only really make sense at five o’clock in the morning, or the great song, the Damned – New Rose, it doesn’t make sense necessarily at seven in the morning, but seven in the evening, before you go out, boy, it really does its job. So it’s kind of the same way when you’re recording songs, that you can’t really force things too much. If they don’t feel right — you know that something’s good — but if you can’t feel it, and you can’t put everything into it, then you just have to wait. And you just have to let it gestate and lie there a bit and then you can come back to it in a couple of years or so.

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I love the title. But when you get mortgage in Britain, they always have this thing at the bottom saying: ‘Your home is at risk if you don not keep up with payments’. I wanted to use that as the title. But I‚m not sure if it‚s catchy enough.

“Big Ideas” has become the great lost Radiohead classic, hasn’t it ? You’ve played it live a number of times, as long as four years ago, but it has yet to surface on record. Why is that ?

Thom : Well, there are a number of bands we could give it to- for them to play it. I mean. Like, I would literally get down on my hands and knees and beg Elvis Costello & the Attractions to do it. Because I know they’d play it much better than us. But I don’t have the guts to ask them.

Zane: « A lot of people want to know about one song in particular and – I hate to focus on this, and tie you in, but none of this stands at the end of the day, obviously, but Vince does want to know like anybody else about ‘Big ideas’, one of the older tracks. »

Ed: « Yeah. »

Zane: « Is it still in the picture? »

Ed: « Yeah, it is! We’ve got a board of about 25, 30 songs and it’s very, very, very much in there. We’ve done… That, actually, is the one song that we’ve done, we’ve recorded. It’s called, it’s kind of… it’s called ‘Nude’ now. »

Zane: « Ok. »

Ed: « It’s got a direction that we’d like to follow, but we’d like to say it’s got really big bass, and very sparse, very, very sparse… Thom’s done an amazing, amazing vocal on it, and it’s kind of the area that we want to go in. We just… we need a bit more confidence. I mean, kind of… to be honest with you, we’re not very self-confident at the moment. We’re kind of… we’ve had our arses kicked in the studio… going back, when you think something’s really good in the studio, you go back and it’s not, you kind of… you start doubting what you think is good. That’s when it gets to be mind games… »

We’ve developed this cool version of ‘Nude’, which is another song that’s been around for ages. ‘Don’t Get Any Big Ideas’ it used to be called. There is an actual recording of that – but whether it’s finished or not is something we’re going to have to argue amongst ourselves about (laughs). It’s fucking tortuous being us – nobody else on the planet would operate like this.

— Thom Yorke / Mojo, juillet 2006

Le groupe est content et a le sentiment de voir le bout du tunnel…

Jim: « All right! Well that’s fair… Well there’s one song out there that you guys are playing live now that i think has been around for years and years, right?

Thom: « Mhmm

Jim: « Never quite got on a record, and people are wondering when it’s gonna be out there, I’m losing the title now, but

Jonny: « Nude

Jim: « Is it getting anywhere? You think it’s getting to the point where it’s gonna make the cut for this next record?

Thom: « I think it’s got there, isn’t it?

Jonny: « Yah.

Thom: » I mean, we’ll probably end up arguing about the little tiny nooks and crannies of it in the end, but um, basically, yeah. We have that. It’s in the bag.

“Thom felt it was right now, as he is in a place in his life where the words make sense to him.
“When we wrote it in the early Nineties, it didn’t feel right to him. Thom would say this album was also right for it because I finally came up with a bassline. It’s a soul thing.
“It was like a picture that wasn’t right for years and now it works for him.
“And in the context of the record it’s kind of about love so it works in that setting,”

— Colin Greenwood The Sun, 28 décembre 2007

que c’est Colin et sa basse qui ont débloqué la situation

We’re talking to this guy, um we’re talking to a guy… Diplo? Um, Yeah, he’s worked with MIA stuff and and, he’s currently… poor chap, he’s currently trying to do a remix of it… and I sent him an e-mail saying, « ? » and the main thing is you got… is to keep it in sync same? And he’s like Yeah, I’m down with that, man… laughs… and keep it okey dokey… I can’t wait to hear it… Anyway… this is the original…

— Thom Yorke / BBC Radio 4 'Front Row', 14/12/2007

qu’un remix aurait pu voir le jour.

John: « So that’s a song that could have been on OK Computer then?

Thom: « It could, but we never really…..it didn’t ever really fit together until Colin came up with the bassline that starts the tune up. For some reason, that makes it easier to sing (plays Nude)